Freedom Day (South Africa)

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Freedom Day is a South African public holiday celebrated on April 27. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994.[1] They were the first national elections in South Africa in which the franchise did not depend upon race.

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  1. ^ "Freedom Day". South African Government Information. Government of South Africa. http://www.info.gov.za/events/2010/freedom-day.htm. Retrieved 27 April 2011. 


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